لا الہ الا اللہ

یہ مال و دولت دنیا، یہ رشتہ و پیوندبتان وہم و گماں، لا الہ الا اللہ

English translation

The worldly wealth and riches too, ties of blood and friends a dream the idols wrought by doubts untrue, all save God's Oneness empty seem.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

رشتہ و پيوند: عزیز داریوں اور تعلقات کے رشتے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 7 in “⁨لا الہ الا اللہ⁩” (There is no god but Allah) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

۴ / ۷